Quotes About Legacy

If our ancestors had cared for the rights of other people,' he had reminded his Cabinet colleagues in 1878, 'the British Empire would not have been made.

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.

Between the early 1600s and the 1950s, more than 20 million people left the British Isles to begin new lives across the seas. Only a minority ever returned. No other country in the world came close to exporting so many of its inhabitants.

Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.

The salvation of a republic or a kingdom is not, therefore, merely to have a prince who governs prudently while he lives, but rather one who organizes the government in such a way that after his death it can be maintained.

If princes are indeed superior to the people in enacting laws, in organizing civil governments, in setting up new statues and ordinances, then doubtless the people are so superior in maintaining what has been instituted that they increase the glory of those who instituted them.

therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the ancient line of Princes be destroyed; second, that no change be made in respect of laws or taxes; for in this way the newly acquired State speedily becomes incorporated with the hereditary.

above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides

Above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

Ma, per venire a quelli che per propria virtù e non per fortuna sono diventati principi, dico che li più eccellenti sono Moisè, Ciro, Romulo, Teseo e simili.

E chi le acquista, volendole tenere, debbe avere dua respetti: l'uno, che il sangue del loro principe antiquo si spenga; l'altro, di non alterare né loro legge né loro dazii; talmente che in brevissimo tempo diventa, con loro principato antiquo, tutto uno corpo.

Ludzie pr?dzej puszczaj? w niepami?? ?mier? ojca ni? strat? ojcowizny

Men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

los hombres olvidan más pronto la muerte de su padre que la pérdida de su patrimonio.

I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through

L'olezzo di una carneficina, credono alcuni, può aleggiare su un luogo per anni. Dicono che s'infiltri nel suolo e venga lentamente assorbito dall'intrico delle radici finché, col passare del tempo, tutto ciò che vi cresce, dal più piccolo lichene all'albero più alto, ne viene impregnato.

iPhones are not the Elgin Marbles, or Stonehenge, or anything else where part of the miracle is that it lasts.

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.